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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 1048118" data-attributes="member: 56232"><p>Sorry but can you name a single gesture that has ever been used by a civil rights movement that the established and usually right wing didn't then claim was uniquely associated with extremism? The gesture is not the problem, the fact ANY gesture is eventually dismissed as being related to an extremist group because the issue at hand inherently attracts all sorts of people. Surprisingly enough the issue of racial injustice has a fair number of angry black people who stand by it, yet somehow the second that happens the whole movement and all things related to it are associated with extremism. People that are now looked on as freedom fighters and revered at the time were called extremists, why do you think this will be any different?</p><p></p><p>That's the problem, there is NO gesture that can be associated with the fight against racism that the right wing will not end up claiming is associated with extremism and demanding that they protest in a way that is out of sight, out of mind and entirely ineffectual.</p><p></p><p>It's the very nature of civil rights movements, convincing the haves that the current situation is no acceptable and change is needed. That always causes pushback.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 1048118, member: 56232"] Sorry but can you name a single gesture that has ever been used by a civil rights movement that the established and usually right wing didn't then claim was uniquely associated with extremism? The gesture is not the problem, the fact ANY gesture is eventually dismissed as being related to an extremist group because the issue at hand inherently attracts all sorts of people. Surprisingly enough the issue of racial injustice has a fair number of angry black people who stand by it, yet somehow the second that happens the whole movement and all things related to it are associated with extremism. People that are now looked on as freedom fighters and revered at the time were called extremists, why do you think this will be any different? That's the problem, there is NO gesture that can be associated with the fight against racism that the right wing will not end up claiming is associated with extremism and demanding that they protest in a way that is out of sight, out of mind and entirely ineffectual. It's the very nature of civil rights movements, convincing the haves that the current situation is no acceptable and change is needed. That always causes pushback. [/QUOTE]
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